PIRACY SEQUEL Witness Escapes From Hospital
TWIN BROTHER OF DECEASED
Chan Man, owner of a fishing junk, who was attacked by a band of pirates off Castle Peak laat week, and who has since been under medical treatment, escaped from the Kowloon Hos- pital at 1.30 o'clock this morning. The man was wearing clothes
provided by the institution when he made his escape..
It will be recalled that on Tues- day night last, while the junk, with Chan Man, his wife, his twin brother, sister, sister-in-law and two children on board, was anchored about 300 feet from the ahore, off Castle Peak, four rob- bers boarded the vessel and at-1 tacked its occupants
During the fray, Chan Tai-l, the twin brother of Chan Man, was killed. Chan Man escaped by jumping into the sca. Later
the marauders sailed away in the junk, taking with them the women and children as hostages.
The junk and its occupantsj were rescued on the next day by a pursuing junk at Pak Kok, Chinese Territory. No property was reported to have been stolet from the junk,
The escaped man was wanted) by the Police as a witness.
NEW POWER PLANT
FOR CANTON
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According to Mayor Liu, the new power pant will cost $2,800,000 national currency, and the contract for the installation of the ma
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1935
The first published pleture of Princess Nadejda Scherbata, Russian noblewoman, and her daughter, whose father, whom she charges in a paternity suit field in Paris, is Count Louis de Brantes (inset). The Count, son of a French marquis, in the fiunce of Lady Moria Forbes, niece of Ogden Mills; of New York, Princess Scherbatoff asks one million franes and a monthly allow ance for the baby,
PROCURING CASE
Accused Sentenced
To 12 Months
FLOGGING PROMISED IF CAUGHT AGAIN
STARTLING
ALLEGATIONS
IN COURT
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leapt upon him and seized him
At the same time. Charged with procuring a girl by the throat.
chinery has been signed with for immoral purposes within the two other men appeared, armed
SIX ADVANTAGES
managed to shout "Save Life" and
Messrs. Siemons and Co. Construc- Colony, Shek Ho-yin, unemployed, with knives, and one of them got tion has already been started. If was this morning sentenced to 12 hold of his right arm, while the is expected that this new plant will months' hard labour by Mr. W. other searched his pockets. He be completed within the year. When Schofield at the Central Magis- this was heard by his wife who it is completed, uniformity of tracy. voltage will be achieved.
blew a police whistle. The men
· Sergeant Baker said that the
endeavoured to escape, girl, Chan Pik-yu, knew the defen-Tan Nam gave chase. One of the but Ma According to Mayor Liu. the dant us a shop-foki. Some time accused was caught by the chauf voits will be changed from 110 to ago she asked him to secure a jobfeur, who had heard the noise of 220 and 00 kilo-cycles to 50. The for her, and he said he would get the struggle, and a police con- advantages, which will be derived her a position at 20 Lyndhurst stable, who resided near by, caught from the change, are as follows: Terrace. When she arrived there another. The third defendant was
(1) The same electric instru-dhe was told what she was requirarrested later. ments may be used throughout the led to do. She stayed there for five country as volts and kilo-cycles of days and then left. The case was most of the power stations in vari-brought to the attention of the pua provinces are 220 and. 50, re-jpolice by her brother. spectively, and a tremendous sum
Several articles were picked up;!
Today's Short Story.
Under The Sand
By Jack Lindsay
THEEZING and shouting, the cheapest were sent to the animal
W
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slaves lowered the large pits under the arena. Joblong cage and let it rest against But now the tigress, before whose
the arched door of the stone den den the caga had been lowered, was where the tigress was imprison-vory hungry; and after auspiciously ed. The cage seemed to fit per-watching the cage who could not fectly, but they were taking no resist the lump of mant with chances. One of the slaves in-which it was balted. Slinkingly she spected the end of the cage and crawled nearer, opening. her mouth reported that there was no possi-to' snarl at the men.
bility of the tigress squeezing The menacing yawn was unplea round. The cage lay across the sant, even from the other side of narrow width of the long pit,the bars. The mouth of the tigress blocking it.
The slaves pulled hard at a rope, and the barred door of the den rose gratingly up the grooves. The tigrees watched the rising gate, crouching down and flicking her tail round at her ribs. The worried slaves feared that she would refuse. -*-*
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Hammered." by Elsa Godfrey.
h enfer the cage. Wild beasts opened so wide that it reminded one were sometimes obstinate and that of opening one's own mouth too far? upset the programme of the arena. and cricking one's jaw; the fear Nothing mattered except that the that one would never be able to shat programme must not be upset. it again. The tongue curling be
"There are lots more slaves," the tween the upcurved teeth was even overacer would say, spitting brutal-more unpleasant; it brought back ly on the littered ground. "But memories of the rasping lick of a good animals are hard to find." cat's tongue-and how much more Then he'd pick out one of the powerful would be the lick of a more worthless slaves, or one whom famished tigress alone was terrify- he disliked, and tell him to go in ing, apart from the teeth upbared with a red-hot poker and induce under the taut whiskers, the great the beast to follow out the time-claws of the padded feet, the glassy table. Sometimes, the beast obeyed yellow atare of the eyes,
Blind with a snarl; sometimes the slave eyes, it seemed, and yet horrible: grew frightened, and then another lanterns of hunger, not of vision: alave had to be sent in to get the mere flame-holes of the hunger- beast away from the body. There scent. were lots more slaves, and only the
Asplendon looked away. He felt hypnotised. He loathed beasts of prey.
CHARGE OF HEROIN POSSESSION Withdrawn By Police
ANALYSIS PROVES PILLS CONTAIN NO HEROIN
After much mistrust the tigress entered the cage, the dark stripes! of her yellow-tawny body stirring as she moved, like the branch- shadows of her lost forest stirring across the gold of sunlight. Not sunlight was in this pit, on smell of the foreat depths in the reeking chill of buried stone. A dim Hght fell from the openings above, and torches blazed on the walls, held in iron stanchions,
A charge of illegal possession of 81 heroin pills against Li-Fung-kou,
The tigress moved · slowy, ́afraid shop manager, was withdrawn by of the unrecognisable world; for the Folice at the Central Magistracy her den had at least become homely this morning before Mr. W. Scho- with her own amells. Only the feld. Including the handle of a knife, a
smell of the men standing about Mr. F. H. Loseby appeared for the could be now distinguished. Angrily, bottle which smelt of chloroform,
defendant. and a piece of cotton waste. These
fearfully, she hurled herself against A.S.P. Calthrop, appearing for the the bars and found herself thwart- were produced in Court.
The two men who were captured Police, asked that the charge beed, hadged in a blind world empty In passing sentence Mr. Scho-were taken to No. 7 Police Station. withdrawn, because analysis had of wind and sun and earth. In a each field said: "I may point out to you before I pasa judgment that an
Ma Tan Nam was examined by a doc. proved that the pills did not contain dim crypt of stone. Only the men, (8) Industries can easily he pro aggravated cases of this type of tor, who has since left the Colony, heroin. He understood that the de- the enemies, could be realised. She
offence a magistrate may
Several cuts and wounds were dia- fence alleged a plant on the part of roared. (4) Drafting of schemes for na-fogging. If you are caught again
covered on both his wrists. tional defonce is much easier. As you certainly will be flogged." uniformity of voltage is achieved,|
of money be saved.
(2). Power stations of various) cities
can co-operate with
other.
moted.
Accused sald that he did not force the girt to stay there.
order
the same electric instruments for VAGRANCY CHARGE
defence may be used everywhere.
(5) The people may use their old electric instruments, though they move to other localities, thus saving money.
(6) The supply of electric power)
will be increased,
In his address, Mayor Liu told
Man From Mauritius In Trouble
BRITISH SUBJECT
ACCUSED'S QUESTION
the constable, and he suggested that The slaves, who had been holding) the matter be thrashed out in court.. the rope of the cell-door, let go, and Evidence of arrest was taken. Li the door fell with a loud, rattling The chief witness was then Sam, the constable concerned, said thump. The tigress snarled, roared (placed in the box and corroborate that he arrested accused on the in-again, and clawed at the stout
ed what Mr. Fraser had said. After formation of a hawker in the street. wooden bars. The clawa alid out he had given evidence the accused
were permitted to ask him ques- tions.
Personal Par
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from their thick pads revealing their full curved length, straining for the flesh that they could, rip: só easily. The slaves moved away, Mr. G. Hayakawa, of The Nip though they were out of range. ship warned him against that. He Pon Yusen Kalsha, left the Colony The, tigress roared; and the echoes] yesterday by the s.8. Taiye Maruthundered in deafening closeness
The first defendant wanted to
make a statement, but His Wor-
tacked by three men, but by one
of uproar.
the audience that following the Arnold Tanyan, 36-year-old then asked the following question. taking over of the administration unemployed, appeared before Mr.Do you admit that 20 years ago of the Electric Company the Muni- 1 Wynne-Jones at the Central you opened a business in conjunc-Kwong Tai Hong, was among the answered. The pit was a maelstrom Mr. J. Lima, manager of the the pit. The lion in the next cell cipal. Government has formed a Magistracy this morning, charged tion with my grandfather and committee to make assessment of with being a vagrant in the Col-thereby swindled him" "I never Passengers who left the Colony
yesterday by the 6.5. Taiyo Maru. fingers to his ears, but feared that Asplendon wanted to put his the properties of the Company and ony. He was committed to the new your grandfather.” has reserved $30,000 each month to Detention House, pending ar
"I submit that you were not at Mr. J. Ch. A: Gundesen, the the other slaves would laugh. Haf be refunded to the shareholders,rangements for repatriation.
Detective
Sergeant Russell man." was assaulted by three for the Netherlands Harbour tried to think it away, to command technical representative in China forced himself to walt the noise out. Central Press.
It couldn't last much longer. He stated that defendant is a British men," subject, and was born in Mauri Sergeant Sheppard was also called Works Co., returned to the Colony it to stop, to say "Now it's stopping, tius. He came to Hong Kong in as a witness, and stated that he saw yesterday by the Empress of
Anis 1930, and spent most of his time Dr. Lim Kim Kung, who was the accompanied by Mrs. Gundesen stopping stopped..." But it didn't jin Amoy.
doctor who examined the assaulted at wind Men 3/1/2" } NIE? stop. His heart pounded. If the on something would About nine months ago he reman, Icave the Colony for England Lord and Lady Dunsford were Boise went mas since been begging and sleeping
turned to the Colony and had aboard the s.8, Talma on Decem in the Colony yesterday by the Deasta tore than anything in the among the passengers who arrived burst in his head. He loathed wild ters whose certificates are rein the streets. His relatives in Mr. Jackson, the Government R.M.S. Empress of Asia Lord world except the overseer, Lavus. cognised there.
Mauritius are well-to-do business analyst, was given the bottle and the Dunsford in the eldest son of the Then the roaring ceased and Until the matter is adjusted the people, and when he first came to waste to examine and said that as
Earl of Midleton and was formerly silence atole the sound of dripping ailence, blessedly came. Into the China Merchants will not take pas the East he had 3,000 rupees. far as he could judge both the battle a captain of the Surrby Yeomanry. sengere aboard their vessels at which he spent in Amoy during and the waste smelt of ether.
dag water, and, further away, the Hong Kong.
This three years stay there.
A fine of $10, in default 14 day clamour from the Flavian Amphi- CHAUFFEUR'S EVIDENCE hard labour, was imposed on Shum theatre penetrating in a dull concus Pun Kau, who was then called, But, who was charged with the theft ston of noise to the underworld said he was the plaintiff's motorf firewood when he appeared before where the maimals were kept before driver and that it was his practice Magistracy this morning,
Mr. E. I Wynne-Jones at the Central
CHINESE CAPTAINS' CERTIFICATES
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vessels to be commanded by
Communication Ministry
ber 19.
to drive his employer between the Empress Hotel and his home.
Plans Tibet Postal Service On the night of November 16, he
According to information from official dispatches, swift messen dropped his master at No. 40. High
Street where he elded,
the Chinese Ministry of Communi- gers have to be employed.
cations, the Ministry is consider According to the same informa- turned the car ron
ing measures for the improvement tion, postage stamps In Tibet are
the
ostal service In bet printed in three colours, namely,
1,000
000 HA
Ethere frean, blus, kike, pink On the
stamps are engraved the sun, the
moon, and a lion, the last being the national symbol of Tibet
(Chekial Agency),
Quar
880 impose transmissions of Keelung
tine restrictions have been
"
their appearance aloft.
Asplendor closed his eyes, relax- ing into the silence. A drop of water fell into ones of the torches, and made a crackling. itter.
then
ACCUSED IDENTIFIED nesa. ga chase and aft the man
Øyes
ja pinprick:of molten bare arm but kept his
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